Chinese milk products import in blocked in U.S. The Food and Drug Administration’s effort is to ensure that products contaminated with melamine do not enter the U.S. market.
Not only this, the agency FDA listed dozens of products, including cereals, snack foods, cheese, ice cream, carbonated drinks, candy, puddings and pet foods as potentially contaminated with melamine, which is used in the manufacture of plastics and fertilizer.
According to an alert published at FDA’s website, the agency is ensuring all measures to stop the import of the harmful products.
The agency said on the website, it learned in September that more than 53,000 infants in China became sick after consuming infant formula containing melamine. Nearly 13,000 were hospitalized and at least four died of illnesses involving the formation of kidney stones and crystals and related complications.
“These contaminated milk components appear to have been dispersed throughout the Chinese food supply chain,” the agency said.
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